Wind strength in Ullner July 7, 2006
One of the understandings of modern poetry: the definition of "poetry";
The so-called "poem": a text carrier that expresses complex emotions and profound thoughts by creating rich artistic images in the simplest phonological text form. This is my definition of poor ability. Therefore, all understandings of "poetry", especially "modern poetry", revolve around this definition.
This definition shows five characteristics of poetry: first, conciseness; The second is the phonological writing form; Third, artistic image; The fourth is emotion and thought; The fifth is to express it in words. The explanation is as follows:
(1) Conciseness means expressing the richest meaning with the least words. Poetry has strong language jumping and large information span; So, you can do it continuously.
(2) Phonological writing form: There are four possible aspects. First, the words of the whole poem are spelled into a specific pictographic shape in some way, such as: the phrase is spelled into the image of a cow in a plane space, and the title of the poem is "cow"; Second, the number of words in each sentence reaches a certain requirement, thus forming poems, such as five-character quatrains, seven-character poems, Song poems, haiku and so on. , and each sentence of these poems has several words; Thirdly, the words and sentences in the poem have phonology, rhythm and musicality, and have the singing characteristics of rhyme and level tone; The fourth is duality and palindrome.
Compared with traditional poetry, modern poetry pays great attention to the rhythm of sentences, but it loses its traditional characteristics such as rhyme, balance and antithesis.
(3) Artistic image: Poetry uses images instead of abstract language to construct images and artistic conception and express emotions and thoughts; This is the level to test the author's literary foundation and artistic accomplishment. A poem, if it is shaped like a poem, is actually prose, then it has little "poetry". The uniqueness of poetic flavor lies in that poetry not only has musicality, but also expresses abstract and profound thoughts and profound and lasting feelings with concrete images. Compared with poetry, prose can use abstract language, such as "I love you deeply", but it is too straightforward and abstract when used in poetry. The poem may say: "The vines and trees are deeply intertwined and integrated into each other's bones, heating up the ups and downs outside. Life is shared in interdependence, this winter. "
As a literary and artistic form, poetry has the basic characteristics of art, that is, artistic image. This is also the different positioning of "poetry" and "theoretical article" in expression; Theoretical articles should be rigorous, plain, abstract, unambiguous, logical and rational. Poetry is the opposite.
Here, what is an artistic image? The so-called artistic image is a kind of rationality in essence (emotion or thought? ) dominates the expression of "sensibility". This "sensibility" is through visual, auditory, tactile, taste and spiritual means (image? ) to show, form an influence channel, infect the voice of * * *, and reach the hearts of the people;
For example:
Visual aspects, such as color: two orioles singing green willows, a line of egrets flying into the sky, Xiling with snow windows, Wu Dong Wan Li boat moored at the door; Du fu's quatrains
In terms of hearing, such as sound: lotus leaves and skirts are all cut in one color, and hibiscus flowers bloom on both sides of the face. Lotus is mixed in the lotus pond, and it is difficult to recognize the lotus pond. Only when you hear the song do you know that someone is picking lotus in the pond-picking lotus. Wang Changling's Song of Picking Lotus.
The influence of Song people's reception theory is weaker than that of Tang people in poetry creation and artistic image-building, forming a trend of strong reasoning and weak reasoning and weak artistic image, losing the classical charm of Tang poetry. For example:
Half an acre of square pond opened, and the sky was overcast. Ask where the canal is so clear, because there is running water at the source. Zhu, reading experience
Fly to the top of Chihiro Tower, hear the cock crow and the sun rise. As written in a China poem, we are not afraid of dark clouds covering our sight, because we are already on the top of the mountain. Wang Anshi and Deng Fei Laifeng
Looking at Lushan Mountain from the front and side of peaks and valleys, from far, near, high and low places, Lushan Mountain presents various faces. I can't recognize the true face of Lushan Mountain because I am there. Su Shi, title Xilin wall
After three poems, the aura is insufficient and there is nothing to say.
(4) Emotion: it is the content and goal of the information to be conveyed by poetry. A poem should have true (not false) feelings and thoughts. The voice of the heart is poetry, which is formed by the heart and sung by songs. The depth of emotion and thought is related to the author's humanistic level, knowledge realm, social experience, cultural accomplishment and profound knowledge reserve.
(5) Expression of words: The essence of words or poems is the carrier of emotions and thoughts, serving the latter. If you pursue words, you will give up the basics.
Whether it is "concise" or whether it has "phonological form" is the watershed between "poetry" and "prose" in "writing form"
Poetry, because of its conciseness, has concentrated information, leaping thinking and full of tension. Compared with poetry, prose is dense in language, not jumping, not as big in information span as poetry, not jumping in language, coherent and meaningful, and not paying much attention to phonology. If "Poetry" is a movie, then "Prose" is a TV series adapted from the movie.
Similarly, poetry pays more attention to phonology than prose, and tends to release inner rhythm and rhythm. If prose is compared to a spiritual walk, then poetry is an elegant dance of the soul.
Two. You can go to Baidu to search for prose. Some people should understand its comments and original articles according to their own ideas. Read them several times first. I'll tell you a simple way to make you understand sentences you don't understand. You can split a sentence into words or words and go to Baidu search, and then combine the searched content with your own understanding. You can download Baidu's Modern Poetry Book or Modern Poetry in the library! !